What powers wikihow.com?

Last seen Aug 2026 · 38 technologies across 20 categories

Analytics

comScore
since Aug 2024
Google Analytics vUA
since Jun 2018
Optimizely
since May 2017
Snowplow Analytics
since Sep 2022

Authentication

Facebook Login
since Apr 2026
Google Sign-in
since Apr 2026

CMS

WordPress v.
since Jul 2021

Cookie compliance

Funding Choices
since Mar 2024

Databases

MySQL
since Jul 2021

Ecommerce

Cart Functionality
since Nov 2020

Email

Google Workspace
since Aug 2022
MailChimp
since Aug 2022
Sendgrid
since Aug 2022

Font scripts

Google Font API
since Jul 2021
Twitter Emoji (Twemoji)
since Jul 2021

Issue trackers

Sentry
since Sep 2022

JavaScript frameworks

Ember.js v3.28.12
since Jul 2023
Mustache v0.8.1
since Jun 2018
Next.js v10.2.0
since Sep 2022
React
since Jul 2021

JavaScript libraries

jQuery v3.3.1
since Jun 2018
jQuery Migrate v3.0.1
since Aug 2019
Moment.js v2.29.4
since Jul 2023
web-vitals
since May 2022

Message boards

Discourse v3.2.0
since Jul 2023

Miscellaneous

HTTP/3
since Jan 2023
Open Graph
since Sep 2022
PWA
since Jul 2023
Webpack
since Aug 2019

PaaS

Automattic
since Jul 2021

Programming languages

Node.js
since Sep 2022
PHP
since Jun 2018
Ruby
since Jul 2023

Security

HSTS
since Sep 2022

Tag managers

Google Tag Manager
since May 2022

Web frameworks

Ruby on Rails
since Jul 2023

Web servers

Nginx
since Jul 2021

Wikis

MediaWiki
since May 2017

AI Crawlers

Blocks 24 of 33 AI crawlers we track by name in its robots.txt. Checked Sep 2026.

Training crawlers

  • AI2Bot Blocked
  • Applebot-Extended Blocked
  • Bytespider Blocked
  • CCBot Blocked
  • ClaudeBot Blocked
  • cohere-training-data-crawler Blocked
  • Diffbot Blocked
  • FacebookBot Blocked
  • GPTBot Blocked
  • ImagesiftBot Blocked
  • img2dataset Blocked
  • meta-externalagent Blocked
  • Webzio-Extended Blocked

Search and AI assistants

  • Amazonbot Blocked
  • Claude-SearchBot Blocked
  • DuckAssistBot Blocked
  • OAI-SearchBot Blocked
  • PerplexityBot Blocked
  • PetalBot Blocked
  • YouBot Blocked

User-request fetchers

  • ChatGPT-User Blocked
  • Claude-User Blocked
  • meta-externalfetcher Blocked
  • MistralAI-User Blocked

The other 9 AI crawlers we track are not mentioned and only inherit the catch-all rules that apply to every crawler.

  • robots.txt found
  • llms.txt not found
  • ai.txt not found

See who blocks each AI crawler across the web

Top backlinks

Top links pointing at the site, one per source domain, strongest first. The anchor text opens the page carrying the link.

AI Crawlers

24 of 33 AI crawlers blocked

Full breakdown

Audience

  • 72% phone
  • 25% desktop
  • 3% tablet
  • United States
  • Brazil
  • United Kingdom
  • India
  • Canada
  • Russia

Where the site's Chrome visitors come from, largest estimated audience first.

Open Page Rank

8.81 / 10 · ranked #767 of all domains

27,205 referring domains · OpenPageRank

Search traffic

8,261,700 est. monthly organic visits (US)

3,791,948 keywords in Google's top 30

Core Web Vitals

LCP1.3 s
INP175 ms
CLS0
TTFB600 ms

Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Aug 2026.

Page

  • Language: Arabic
  • CDN: Fastly
  • Weight: 0.9 MB · 39 requests
  • Structured data: JSON-LD, Twitter Cards

Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Sep 2026.

Organisation

From the homepage's own structured data (Sep 2026).

Infrastructure

  • Registered Jun 2004 (22 years) via Network Solutions, LLC, renews Jun 2033
  • Hosted on Fastly (151.101.1.91)
  • DNS: DNS Made Easy
  • Email: Google Workspace
  • Email security: SPF (soft fail), DMARC reject
  • SSL: GlobalSign, RSA 2048, wildcard, expires Mar 2027
  • Common Crawl link graph: rank 270, 55 hosts
  • Verified with: Brave Creators, GlobalSign, Google, OpenAI

DNS records as swept Sep 2026, certificate as seen Sep 2026, registration from the registry's RDAP service. How the web is hosted

Subdomains

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www.wikihow.com 17
coupons.wikihow.com 15
ar.wikihow.com 13
de.wikihow.com 13
es.wikihow.com 13
forums.wikihow.com 13
fr.wikihow.com 13
hi.wikihow.com 13
id.wikihow.com 13
ko.wikihow.com 13
m.wikihow.com 13
nl.wikihow.com 13
pt.wikihow.com 13
ru.wikihow.com 13
th.wikihow.com 13
zh.wikihow.com 13
pt.m.wikihow.com 12
ar.m.wikihow.com 8
blog.wikihow.com 8
de.m.wikihow.com 8
es.m.wikihow.com 8
fr.m.wikihow.com 8
hi.m.wikihow.com 8
id.m.wikihow.com 8

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